Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 18 3/ Along with subsidies, China appears willing to restrict OSS contributions. I use censorship watchdog data to show that in 2021, China made it harder for domestic developers to access GitHub directly.
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4/ Chinese developers use VPNs to bypass internet restrictions. I show a growing "VPN gap" between my measure of Chinese GitHub activity (based on self-reported locations) and GitHub's Innovation Graph data (based on IPs).